2016 IBM Watson AI XPRIZE ($5 Million Computing Competition)

About IBM Watson AI XPRIZE The IBM Watson AI XPRIZE is a $5 million AI and cognitive computing competition challenging teams globally to develop and demonstrate how humans can collaborate with powerful AI technologies to tackle the world’s grand challenges. This prize will focus on creating advanced and scalable applications that benefit consumers and businesses across ... Continue Reading

About IBM Watson AI XPRIZE

The IBM Watson AI XPRIZE is a $5 million AI and cognitive computing competition challenging teams globally to develop and demonstrate how humans can collaborate with powerful AI technologies to tackle the world’s grand challenges. This prize will focus on creating advanced and scalable applications that benefit consumers and businesses across a multitude of disciplines. The solutions will contribute to the enrichment of available tools and data sets for the usage of innovators everywhere. The goal is also to accelerate the understanding and adoption of AI’s most promising breakthroughs.

Every year leading up to TED 2020, the teams will compete for interim prizes and the opportunity to advance to the next year’s competition. The three finalist teams will take the TED stage in 2020 to deliver jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring TED Talks demonstrating what they have achieved.

Typical of all XPRIZE competitions, the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE will crowdsource solutions from some of the most brilliant thinkers and entrepreneurs around the world, creating true exponential impact.

Application Deadline

Not Specified

Value of Prize

Grand Prizes

The $3,000,000 Grand Prize, $1,000,000 2nd Place, and $500,000 3rd Place purses will be awarded at the end of competition at TED2020, for a total of $4.5 million.

Milestone and Special Prizes

Two Milestone Competition prize purses will be awarded at the end of each of the first two rounds of the competition, and the Judges may award additional special prizes to recognize special accomplishments. A total of $500,000 will be available for these prizes and will be allocated by the Judges for special accomplishments.

All prize purses are denominated and will be awarded in United States dollars (USD).

The Need for the Prize

The progress in AI research and applications in the past 20 years makes it timely to focus attention not only on making AI more capable, but also on maximizing the societal benefit of AI. The democratization of exponential technology enables AI and cognitive computing to put empowerment into the hands of innovators everywhere. Driven by long term capabilities of AI impact, and to better understand the prospects of human and AI collaboration, the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE provides an interdisciplinary platform for domain experts, developers and innovators to, through collaboration, push the boundaries of AI to new heights. The competition will bring the AI community together and accelerate the development of scalable, hybrid solutions and audacious breakthroughs to address humanity’s grandest challenges.

How to Apply

To compete in the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE you must be a fully registered team. To complete your registration, you must:

*Registration fees are required as a simple qualifier to ensure competitors will be able to obtain the appropriate resources to fully compete in the competition. All fee’s collected are used to support teams and competition operational costs which consists of testing, team focused events, media and prize impact development.